วันเสาร์ที่ 27 เมษายน พ.ศ. 2556
Texting is seemingly a part of people's life nowadays. That's why some social networking sites try to make a better innovation in order to make their users feel a great messaging experience. Facebook seems like having outstanding capability of creating
new stuff to its users. The new one is Facebook’s Finch stickers which show up
with a new animated sticker pack created by illustrator Matt Jones as part of
much larger effort to make messaging over Facebook more human.
Facebook’s Finch sticker is not only a ruse. Instead, the
stickers make people in a messaging conversation feel like seeing the face of
the interlocutor. The messaging products are able to mimic face-to-face
interactions of its users.
Sticker which is essentially known as a character-driven interpretation
on emoticons, made their first appearance in Facebook’s iOS application in the
middle of April. The social network has added its warm and fuzzy digital
machinations to the Messenger application of Android. The social media will
eventually bring the characters to its other messaging apps as well.
On Friday, Facebook revealed if the release of a new sticker
pack which is based on a character made by Jones, called as Finch. The new
sticker pack features 16 facial expressions such as sympathy, surprise, cheerfulness,
and sadness, and of course, this sticker pack is available as a free download in
Facebook’s Sticker Store.
We might think if this Facebook’s innovation seems inane, but
we have to know that the Facebook’s stickers are the product of months of
careful research, consequently designed to improve messaging experience and
make it livelier. Aaron Goldsmid, the product lead behing Facebook’s sticker
initiative told CNET, "We're looking to figure out how we can create a
private-sharing experience to most mimic and capture what's lost in
face-to-face connections".
"As an artist, it was an interesting
challenge to try to improve upon what is already an iconic symbol -- the
emoticon," Jones said in a statement shared with CNET. "By applying
classic animation principals, both in design and motion, we arrived at Finch --
an appealing character who appears to think, emote, and communicate. We hope we
have achieved the first step in redefining emoticons."
No matter what improvement that Facebook makes,
as long as it still relevant and interesting to the users, it is really fine
since Facebook is not the only company which embrace stickers. There is Line
that has a larger life emoticons, and it has become a new monetization vehicle
for private social network Path.
